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catalog #73

81.
SAROYAN, Aram.
The Library at Night: A Short Story.

[Bolinas: Aram Saroyan, 1974].

First edition. 8 pp. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Text reproduced from Saroyan’s holograph. Cover art by “Gailyn.” INSCRIBED by Saroyan inside the front cover, “for don / from Aram / 2/24/74.” Original mailing envelope present.
$50

82.
SINCLAIR, John. ed.
The Collected Artists’ Worksheet — 1965.

Detroit: Artists Workshop Press, 1967.

First edition. 4to. 50 pp. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. Edited, with an introduction by John Sinclair. Twelve printed texts, “worksheets,” to be distributed at public readings, by Jim Seamark, John Sinclair, George Tysh, Gary Johnston, Ron English, Tom Paxton, Robin Eichele, Victor Coleman, Magdalene Arndt, and Brian Nachshen in combination or singly.
$150

83.
SINCLAIR, John. ed.
The Journal: April 1965.

Detroit: Artists’ Workshop Press (1965).

First edition. 4to. 80 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art from a drawing by C. Peret. Errata slip laid-in. Contributors include Magdalene Arndt, Veryl Blatt, Bill Cox, Robin Eichele, Ron English, Norm Harper, Bill Harris, Bill Hutton, Gary Johnston, Jim Semark, John Sinclair, George Tysh, and Jerry Younkins.
$200

84.
SISKIND, Aaron and John Logan.
Photographs and Poems.

Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1976.

First edition. 34 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 600 copies. Sixteen b&w photographs by Siskind with his friend Logan’s poetic replies.
$75

85.
SOUTHERN, Terry.
Flash and Filigree.

London: Andre Deutsch (1958).

First edition. 204 pp. A hint of offsetting to endpapers, else very near fine in bright near fine dust jacket with a pale dampstain to rear panel. Southern’s first book, which appeared first in England. Brief jacket endorsement by Henry Green.
$250

86.
SOUTHERN, Terry.
The Magic Christian.

NY: Random House (1960).

First edition. 148 pp. Small pressure-dent to two first leaves, else fine in fine dust jacket. Southern’s second novel.
$75

87.
SPECTOR, Nancy. ed.
All in the Present Must be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys.

Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim (2006).

First edition. 164 pp. Fine in full cloth over flexible boards; no dust jacket as issued. Fully-illustrated with texts by Nancy Spector, Mark C. Taylor, Christian Scheidemann, and Nat Trotman, all in English.
$20

88.
[SPOERRI, Daniel]. Kamber, André. et al, eds.
Petit lexique sentimental autour de Daniel Spoerri.

Paris: Musée National d’Art Modern-Centre Georges Pompidou (1990).

First edition. 231 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Catalogue for this traveling exhibition, well-illustrated. All texts in French.
$40

89.
STEIN, Gertrude.
The World is Round.

NY: William R. Scott (1939).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 67 pp. Near fine in gilt-stamped boards with clear glassine dust wrapper in near fine publisher’s slipcase (bit of wear to extrems). Stein’s text for children illustrated by Clement Hurd. One of 350 copies SIGNED by Stein and Hurd. Wilson A32b.
$1250

90.
[STEIN, Gertrude and Alice B. Toklas]. Steward, Samuel M.
A Pair of Roses.

San Francisco: Juniper Von Phitzer Press, 1993.

First edition. 75 pp. Fine in full lavendar leather with title and gilt designs on front and rear cover. a.e.g. A miniature book, consisting of two memoirs by Samuel Steward of his friends Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Afterword by Marvin R. Hiemstra on Stein, Toklas, and Steward, and three portraits of Stein and Toklas sketched by Hazel Crow Ewell at a book-signing in Chicago in 1934. Designed, handset, and printed letterpress by Juniper Von Phitzer in San Francisco; bound at La Reliure d'Art du Centre, in Limoges. One of 222 numbered copies SIGNED by Steward, Hiemstra, and Von Phitzer.
$75

91.
[STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY].
The CIA or Who Was that Dictator I Seen Ya With?

Chicago: Students for a Democratic Society (1968).

First edition. 8 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Essay reprinted from a pamphlet produced by the University of Wisconsin chapter of the S.D.S.
$45

92.
[SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES]. Rinehart, David.
Survival Research Laboratories: 23 Photographs of Machinery and Performances.

San Francisco: The Visible Spectrum (1988).

First edition. 4to. [16 pp]. Light bend to one upper corner, else very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers. Introduction by V. Vale and Andrea Juno.
$40

93.
TREVOR, William.
Excursions in the Real World.

London: Hutchinson (1993).

First trade edition. xv + 200 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Autobiographical essays by Trevor, illustrated with drawings by Lucy Willis. Dated (2.ix.93) and SIGNED by Trevor on the title page.
$200

94.
TUTTLE, Richard.
Eight Words from a Reading at Brooklyn College.

Firenze: Galleria Victoria Miro (1990).

First edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. A single silver-printed word per page.
$100

95.
[WARHOL, Andy].
Little Electric Chair Paintings.

NY: Stellan Holm Gallery (2001).

First edition. Horizontal 4to. 45 pp. Near fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by Gerard Malanga, essay by Peter Halley. Twenty-five reproductions.
$35

96.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Portrait Photographs.

Frankfort: Gnomon, 1979.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [72 pp]. Fine in cloth-covered boards with leather spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Thirty portraits of writers, artists, and musicians by Williams, presented on tipped-on color plates. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams with an original photograph mounted as a frontis, in this case of Basil Bunting. Other captured writers include Olson, Loy, Levertov, Merton, Finlay, Kitaj, and Ginsberg.
$225

97.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos.
The Desert Music and Other Poems.

NY: Random House (1954).

First edition, limited & signed issue. 90 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Original glassine jacket fine but for a touch of wear at crown and one lower flap fold. Publisher’s slipcase has a few stray marks, else is fine. One of 100 numbered copies printed at the Spiral Press and SIGNED by Williams.
$1250

98.
WRIGHT, Jay.
Death as History.

(np): Poets Press (1967).

First edition. [24 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 200 copies printed at the Kriya Press in Millbrook, NY. Wright’s first book, a collection of fifteen poems.
$75

99.
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
Finally a valentine: a poem.

Stroud: Piccolo Press (1965).

First edition. Single sheet folded twice to the middle to create a center-opening card. Near fine. Zukofksy’s short poem illustrated by John Furnival. One of 500 numbered copies issued as “Opening No 1.”
$35

100.
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
LITTLE: a fragment for careenagers.

(np): Black Sparrow (1967).

First edition, publisher’s copy. 24 pp. Spine lightly sunned, else near fine in boards with wrap-around printed paper label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Designated “PUBLISHER’S COPY” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Zukofsky, who has added in holograph, “All happiness / to John Martin / again LZ / 1.23.1968.” Laid-in is a 4 pp program for a Paul Zukofsky performance as part of the Artists Series at Longwood College in Farmville, VA. On the front cover is penned, “letter (over) / LZ to J.M.” The letter begins, “1/16/68 / Dear John, In kind for Eigner’s The-/ Towards / Autumn (lovely format + contents). Thanks and I’m glad he has LITTLE. / One of Little’s many involvements/ this, at 24 - a tougher life than a / poet’s.”
$350

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